A short field trip through the known and less known memorial heritage in Carniola presents a selection of well over five hundred public monuments and memorials erected in Carniola in the second half of the 20th Century, in the context of new knowledge, understanding and interpretations as well as from different historic perspectives, closely connected with constantly changing political situation and under ruthless weight of time. The lecture exposes work of some of nowadays completely forgotten artists, who left their trails in Carniola and emphasizes the best examples of original and artistically accomplished monuments and memorials.

Nataša Ivanović, PhD

19. 9. 2014, Ljubljana

Decline – Metamorphosis – Rebirth, International Conference for PhD Students

18. – 20. 9. 2014, Ljubljana

Dense and interweaved short study will be an authentic presentation of the forgotten landscape painter Lovro Janša (1749–1812) not only as a simple monographic individual depiction of an artist, yet also as a part of its cultural-historical milieu. Janša’s life and his opus will serve merely as the basis of the demonstration of the discourse of the reception between the spectator, the art work and the artist in Vienna and its surroundings. The main emphasis will remain on the relevancy of the art work as an individual object which is evaluated through the historical analysis, led not by an artist as a genius but his art work as a proof of the painter’s, commissioner’s, collector’s and spectator’s view around 1800.

Nataša Ivanović, PhD

3. 9. 2014, Istanbul

Images IV, Images of the Other: Istanbul, Vienna, Venice

2. – 4. 9. 2014, Istanbul, Vienna, Venice

This paper will be a presentation of spectator’s horizon of expectations in the terms of the social model of the reception of graphic, drawing or painting before the discovery of photography in the late 18 th century in Habsburg monarchy. Both cities, as Vienna like Istanbul, were represented by very important landscape painter and professor on Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lorenz Janscha (1749–1812), but artist perception of those cities on account of commissioner was different. In Janscha’s way presentation of Istanbul and other European cities out of the Habsburg Empire were always depicted as imaginary places, while their picture were commonly used for peep-box to show Vienna’s citizens rare, distant, unknown places. On the other side Vienna was always exposed in realistic manner as a veduta (Ansichten der Residenzstadt Wien) and a panorama, realized in year 1804.